Chapter Nine
AlexPOV
After our little heart to heart we all arrived back to the house pretty much unscathed so that in and of itself was practically a miracle as we un tacked the horses I saw something a flicker of familiarity, I saw it earlier, the way in which he smiled, the way he tilts his head slightly...I do it to, it was only in those little tiny things than I notice the resemblance.
"So is there anything else you do that we don't know about?" I looked at Hermione and I could tell the first time I met her that she had brains to burn and a heart of gold...truth be told she never misses a beat and with her scrutinising, unwavering gaze I knew I was in trouble.
I might have super fast reflexes but that girl examines everything and although she can't always know what it means thankfully for her she has Ginny to pick up the slack, I have never seen a girl who is harder to read but also reads people as well as her.
She gave me a look in the bathroom this morning when I was practically naked, she smiled at me and gave me a glare that clearly said 'Back up off my man' and I just smiled back clearly showing her that she had nothing to worry about.
The group of people made up of incredibly strong and powerful magical beings was an eclectic bunch but they all meshed really well.
"What do you wanna know?" I asked them smiling as I set the tack up clearly stating I was an open book.
"Stakes?" I looked down but looked up through my eyelashes at Ron
"Incredibly tasty medium rare especially with onions." I grinned with my tongue between my teeth.
"Crosses..." I saw Harry smile at me which confirmed to me that he had seen it this morning and so I pulled out my necklace from my shirt which had a silver cross on it at which Ron looked quite sick.
"Call me a masochist but I'm pretty religious." I smiled again...and in that moment I felt myself let go for a while and I let my shield down and I heard them all in their own heads.
"Holy Water..." I gently shook my head
"Thirst quenched." He looked entirely defeated.
"How exactly do you think I can look like this if I had no reflection?" It was a rhetorical question and of course he didn't answer thank goodness.
"Ok well what can you do?" I smiled and took my hand off the bridle after setting it up on the hook before reaching out for him.
"Its ok I don't bite...much" Ginny and Harry were laughing at the slightly scared look on his face I mean I don't blame him I am a vampire after all.
"You're not going to eat me are you?" At this Hermione burst out laughing as well.
"No...not unless you ask me to..." His scared expression turned to one of pure unadulterated fear
"Trust me if I was gonna kill you you would know it...I play with my food." I saw Hermione grip his arm gently as if to reassure him it was ok to do it. He took my hand albeit reluctantly and I pushed as much warmth and emotion through my body his tense expression turned to goo and it looked like he was high with that goofy expression on his face.
" What did you do to him?" Harry asked
"Who cares?" Ginny also asked with a smile clearly enjoying the effect I was having on her brother at this though Hermione glared at her.
"I DO!" She shrieked so loud the horse paid attention. "What did you do he is practically catatonic?" She was really freaking out as he lightly poked a finger into Harry's face.
"Ha ha...your face is so squishey..." I nearly pissed myself at that.
"Relax H I just gave him an emotion cocktail he'll be fine in a few...Really he is fine." I reassured her with my hand on her arm. Everything was quiet for a while as we were all watching Ron chase a butterfly until Harry made the conversation turn from one of fun and amusement to down right depressing.
"How do I choose?" Harry looked at me with a serious expression on his face and for a second I was confused that was until Ginny turned sombre as well then I caught on what he meant.
"You don't...I do...ok well fate does." He looked surprised as did everyone else except for Ron who looked extremely amused with the wispy curls of Hermiones hair which she kept swatting his hand away from
"What do you mean?" This is the part I hated...I knew what Kingsley had told them but he didn't tell them specifics...I brought Alice and Frank back from Crazyville because I owed them my life.
I met them when they were just beginning as a couple and they were going on their first vacation together, deciding they wanted to be rebels they came into a club I was bartending and saved me from a couple assholes who were muggles but dangerous none the less.
I was there at the wedding, saw baby Neville and after everything had happened I went to visit them as much as I could. Myself and Kingsley spent all these years coming up with a way to de-crazy them I went to witch doctors, herbal specialists...wizardry ones of course but no avail.
I was making my way through Rome when I met them...three strangers who were quite obviously unnatural looking with their bright eyes and wide smile. I spent a few days talking to them about various ways to help witches and wizards who have been tortured and therefore went mad after the fact.
They were very helpful considering...I had the remedy and was pleading with Kingsley for the past year to let me help them out but he came up with a compromise...if I helped him bring back the loved one of the young Six or in their case Seven witches and wizards who actually saved the world. I had reluctantly agreed considering my speciality I was able to kill two birds with one stone.
"All my life or well my afterlife it was so much easier keeping my gift a secret considering that magic was taboo I just sort of tried to make myself seem like a young witch." They all listened intensely including Ron who had been released from his cocktail of free love.
"Wait but you don't age...do you?" I shook my head at Ginny and smiled.
"I never stayed in one place more than three years...it stayed that way until I met Albus..." This snapped Harry away from me and had a hard glare on his face.
"Albus...you knew...Dumbledore?" I nodded my head at them and smiled at the memory.
"Yeah they helped me out from getting caught by a couple of death eaters when one summer they had a break from Hogwarts...I practically lived in their house that summer and had a very brief fling with Albus when he was just a boy." This shocked them all as Ron had a look of disgust at this.
"How long did it last? The fling?" Hermione asked me and her and Ginny were genuinely curious about my relationship with him.
"Just the summer...once he went back to school I went back to my life but I was very close to him on up until the end. He told me all about your mission Harry and I helped him as much as I could." He didn't seem to register everything I had just told him considering everything that he was currently slumped in shock on a bale of hay in the corner.
"Look come up to the house I'm sure Mr and Mrs Weasley will be here and they are probably wondering what's going on?" They all agreed with me and I closed the gate and we all walked up into the house that's when we heard what I was guessing Mrs Weasley screeching at the top of her lungs.
"She is going to what?" Time to face the music I guess.
